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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/25 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 2, item 9 A second version of the biographical sketch of artist John Henry Adams, painter of Jesus Before Pilate

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"Jesus <choice><orig>before</orig><reg>Before</reg></choice> Pilate", a piece of art considered one of the most difficult aggregation of men to portray in pen or paint, has been done in oil by Prof.Professor John Henry Adams, a Georgian, born near Albany. As an artist, he is con-sidered equally as proficient in pen, pencil, charcoal, and oil paintings. Painted a life sizelife-size picture of the late Gen.General W.W. Andrews, Grand Chancellor of Knights of PythiansPythias.See Pythian/Pythians. The painting now hangs in the AndrewsAndrews' home, 511 Clay St.Street, Jacksonville, FlaFlorida. While he ^has never painted or drawn for a livelihood, he indulges in the art for the simple love of it. He was a teacher in his early life, first at Morris Brown UniUniversity, Atlanta, GaGeorgia,. travelingTraveling represen-tative for the "Voice of the Negro", a periodical;. wasWas a journalist of no mean ability, as well as editor of the colored page of two outstanding Southern dailies, Florida<lb/> Times<choice><orig> </orig><reg>-</reg></choice>Union and Jacksonville Journal;, and a colored weekly, The Florida<lb/> Sentinel, which was published in Jax.Jacksonville. Was one time connected with Tampa<lb/> Bulletin, weekly paper at Tampa, Fla.Florida. Is now in Waco, Texas, writing for the Associated Negro Press.